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== Members == | == Members == | ||
=== Arctic Cannon Larva === | === Arctic Cannon Larva === | ||
[[File:Arctic Cannon Larva.png|left|150px]] | [[File:Arctic Cannon Larva P4 icon.png|left|150px]] | ||
{{main|Arctic Cannon Larva}} | {{main|Arctic Cannon Larva}} | ||
The Arctic Cannon Larva is a variety of lithopod that | The Arctic Cannon Larva is a variety of lithopod that appear in {{p3}} and {{p4}}. It is of a brighter whitish-green color compared to the Armored Cannon Larva with a lavender underbelly. They live in snowy areas, and instead of spitting out boulders, they spit out snowballs that trap [[Pikmin family|Pikmin]] and leaders, and sends them back on a predetermined path. Like the [[Armored Cannon Larva|Armored Cannon Beetle Larva]]'s boulders, [[Winged Pikmin]] can fly over them. The only non-visual different between it and its cousin is that snowballs don't flatten Pikmin, but can knock them into hazards or send them back to the end of the path. | ||
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=== Arctic Cannon Beetle === | |||
[[File:Arctic Cannon Beetle P4 icon.png|left|150px]] | |||
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The Arctic Cannon Beetle is the adult stage of the Arctic Cannon Larva. It is seen in {{p4}}. The Arctic Cannon Beetle appears similar to the Armored Cannon Beetle and Horned Cannon Beetle, with a light blue shell, blue skin, red eyes, and no blowhole. It also spits out snowballs instead of boulders. Due to its lack of a blowhole, it breathes through its mouth instead, allowing it to inhale groups of Pikmin but also forcing it to expose its abdomen as it inhales. | |||
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{{main|Armored Cannon Beetle}} | {{main|Armored Cannon Beetle}} | ||
The Armored Cannon Beetle is the mature specimen of an Armored Cannon Beetle Larva. It is seen in {{p1 | The Armored Cannon Beetle is the mature specimen of an Armored Cannon Beetle Larva. It is seen in {{p1}}. It is a large, black, metallic-looking beetle with a thick, impervious, rounded shell of armor, a blowhole above its head, and a mouth. It attacks by inhaling through its blowhole and subsequently spitting out rolling rocks from its mouth, crushing any Pikmin (or leader) in the way. The only way to defeat it is to clog its blowhole with a Pikmin, which will cause the beetle to expose its steaming red backside. | ||
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=== Armored Cannon Larva === | === Armored Cannon Larva === | ||
[[File:Armored | [[File:Armored Cannon Larva P4 icon.png|left|150px]] | ||
{{main|Armored Cannon Larva}} | {{main|Armored Cannon Larva}} | ||
Armored Cannon Larvae are enemies in | Armored Cannon Larvae are enemies in {{p2}}, {{p3}}, and {{p4}}. They resemble large grubs with small blue eyes and a mouth bearing resemblance to that of the [[Armored Cannon Beetle]]. It also has a blowhole, but appears to inhale through its mouth, unlike the adult form. This animal behaves in much the same manner as the Armored Cannon Beetle, but turns and spits at a faster rate and has much less [[health]]. They do not have the hard exoskeleton the adults are infamous for, and are thus vulnerable on all parts of their body. | ||
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=== Decorated Cannon Beetle === | === Decorated Cannon Beetle === | ||
[[File: | [[File:DecoratedCannonBeetleHD.png|left|150px]] | ||
{{main|Decorated Cannon Beetle}} | {{main|Decorated Cannon Beetle}} | ||
Decorated Cannon Beetles have an appearance identical to Armored Cannon Beetle Larvae, except they are red instead of green. They, too, spit out stones, but their rocks home in on the leaders due to a magnetic substance inside the rock which locks onto the leaders' suits. The adult form of this has not appeared in any [[Pikmin series|''Pikmin'' games]] so far, but they appear to be in the same family as the Armored Cannon Beetle. | Decorated Cannon Beetles have an appearance identical to Armored Cannon Beetle Larvae, except they are red instead of green. They, too, spit out stones, but their rocks home in on the leaders due to a magnetic substance inside the rock which locks onto the leaders' suits. The adult form of this has not appeared in any [[Pikmin series|''Pikmin'' games]] so far, but they appear to be in the same family as the Armored Cannon Beetle. | ||
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=== Firesnout Beetle === | === Firesnout Beetle === | ||
[[File:Firesnout Beetle Creature Log.png|left|150px]] | [[File:Firesnout Beetle Creature Log.png|left|150px]] | ||
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=== Horned Cannon Beetle === | |||
[[File:Horned Cannon Beetle P4 icon.png|left|150px]] | |||
{{main|Horned Cannon Beetle}} | |||
The Horned Cannon Beetle is a lithopod seen in {{p4}}. It appears very similar to the Armored Cannon Beetle, but with a less metallic and more segmented shell, along with longer mandibles. The blowhole is also larger and higher up on the shell, pointing at an angle instead of being front facing. It's overall more detailed, but as these details are shared with the Arctic Cannon Beetle, these differences are likely due to graphical improvements. | |||
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== Other members == | == Other members == | ||
=== Strong-Armed Cannon Beetle === | === Strong-Armed Cannon Beetle === | ||
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''Official family unknown'' | ''Official family unknown'' | ||
The reel notes and the Player's Guide "Field Guide" description for the Armored Cannon Beetle reveal the | The reel notes and the Player's Guide "Field Guide" description for the Armored Cannon Beetle reveal that is filled the biological niche of something else: the Strong-Armed Cannon Beetle. It apparently has a weaker carapace than the one seen in-game and is a continental breed native to the region, unlike the Armored Cannon Beetle, and later, Horned Cannon Beetle. The ''New Play Control! Pikmin'' Prima Guide uses the "Field Guide" description for the Armored Cannon Beetle verbatim except with one change: the one mention of the Strong-Armed Cannon Beetle was changed to the Armored Cannon Beetle's technical name, Greater Lithopod. This may have been a [[mistake]]. | ||
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The genus name for members of this family is ''Granitus'', which is Latin for "granite", referring to the rocks they shoot. | The genus name for members of this family is ''Granitus'', which is Latin for "granite", referring to the rocks they shoot. | ||
Between the English and Japanese versions of {{ps}} games, the classifications of members of this family differ greatly. | |||
In the English versions, the Armored Cannon Beetle and Horned Cannon Beetle are two distinct creatures. The Armored Cannon Beetle Larva is a young variant of the Armored Cannon Beetle. The two species can interbreed, but pollution of the gene pool from the Horned Cannon Beetle is driving the Armored Cannon Beetle and its larvae to extinction. | |||
In the Japanese versions, the Armored Cannon Beetle and Horned Cannon Beetle are the same creature, as they share the same Japanese name. They have different common names, however. The Armored Cannon Beetle Larva is instead the larva of a different unseen species, the territory of which the Armored Cannon Beetle/Horned Cannon Beetle is invading and endangering it. | |||
===Names in other languages=== | ===Names in other languages=== | ||
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|JapR = Ishi tsutsumi ka | |JapR = Ishi tsutsumi ka | ||
|JapM = Stone wrapper family | |JapM = Stone wrapper family | ||
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|ChiTrad = 裏石蟲科 | |ChiTrad = 裏石蟲科 | ||
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|Fra = lithophages | |Fra = lithophages | ||
|FraM = | |FraM = | ||
|FraN = The name is a portmanteau of ''"litho"'' (stone) and ''"phage"'' (eat) | |||
|Ger = Lithopoden | |Ger = Lithopoden | ||
|GerM = | |GerM = | ||
|Ita = | |GerN = | ||
|ItaM = | |Ita = | ||
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|Kor = 바위보따리 과 | |Kor = 바위보따리 과 | ||
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|Spa = Litópodos | |Spa = Litópodos | ||
|SpaM = Lithopods | |SpaM = Lithopods | ||
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|Por = Comelitoídeos | |||
|PorM = Eatlithoidae | |||
|PorN = The name is a portmanteau of ''"comer"'' (to eat), ''"lito"'' (Greek litho; stone) and the suffix "''-ídeos''" ({{w|Family_(biology)#Nomenclature|-idae}}), which is used for naming animal family names | |||
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}} | }} | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[Boulder]] | *[[Boulder]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Polyocular slug family]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Meerslug family]] | ||
{{families}} | {{families}} | ||
[[Category:Lithopod family| ]] | [[Category:Lithopod family| ]] | ||
[[Category:Families with mentioned enemies]] | |||